Quest for Meaning Scavenger Hunt!
Your job? Answer these questions by finding the answers in Chapter 35 of the textbook.
The "Challenge" after the question is there to see if you can make a connection between the ideas in the textbook and the world and your ideas.
What is alienation?
Challenge: Do you think people still feel this?
Challenge: Are you more an optimist or a pessimist?
Give an example of dystopian literature from the textbook.
Challenge: Can you think of a film which presents a dystopian future?
What is existentialism?
Challenge: Would you want Jean-Paul Sartre to hang out at the pub with you and your friends? Why or why not?
What are the characteristics of an existentialist hero (aka an antihero)?
Challenge: Is hell other people?
Make a list that explains "how to recognize theatre of the absurd".
Challenge: Look for a bit of one of the plays mentioned in the text on Youtube and watch it.
Look at the four poets are featured in this chapter. Choose one and explain what is important about his work.
Challenge: Dare to eat the peach! Read at least part of one of these poems aloud. (I like Dylan Thomas.)
What is abstract expressionist painting? What is a colour field painting
Challenge: Imagine that you are very wealthy and will be buying a de Kooning, a Pollock, a Rotchko or a Frankenthaler. Which do you choose? Why?
Challenge: Figures 35.8 and 35.9 are super-famous! If you had to hang one in your home which would it be?
Which sculptors discussed in the text address issues of alienation? Which do you think does it best?
Challenge: If you were going to make plaster casts of people what kind of scenario would you put them in? What ideas would that convey to the viewers?
How do Van Der Rohe's buildings differ from Saarinen or Frank Lloyd Wright buildings?
Challenge: Find a building by one of these architects that you could go to visit using Montreal's public transit system.
How are music and dance related to other arts of the period?
Challenge: Can you perform Cage's compostition 4' 33"?
The "Challenge" after the question is there to see if you can make a connection between the ideas in the textbook and the world and your ideas.
What is alienation?
Challenge: Do you think people still feel this?
Challenge: Are you more an optimist or a pessimist?
Give an example of dystopian literature from the textbook.
Challenge: Can you think of a film which presents a dystopian future?
What is existentialism?
Challenge: Would you want Jean-Paul Sartre to hang out at the pub with you and your friends? Why or why not?
What are the characteristics of an existentialist hero (aka an antihero)?
Challenge: Is hell other people?
Make a list that explains "how to recognize theatre of the absurd".
Challenge: Look for a bit of one of the plays mentioned in the text on Youtube and watch it.
Look at the four poets are featured in this chapter. Choose one and explain what is important about his work.
Challenge: Dare to eat the peach! Read at least part of one of these poems aloud. (I like Dylan Thomas.)
What is abstract expressionist painting? What is a colour field painting
Challenge: Imagine that you are very wealthy and will be buying a de Kooning, a Pollock, a Rotchko or a Frankenthaler. Which do you choose? Why?
Challenge: Figures 35.8 and 35.9 are super-famous! If you had to hang one in your home which would it be?
Which sculptors discussed in the text address issues of alienation? Which do you think does it best?
Challenge: If you were going to make plaster casts of people what kind of scenario would you put them in? What ideas would that convey to the viewers?
How do Van Der Rohe's buildings differ from Saarinen or Frank Lloyd Wright buildings?
Challenge: Find a building by one of these architects that you could go to visit using Montreal's public transit system.
How are music and dance related to other arts of the period?
Challenge: Can you perform Cage's compostition 4' 33"?